Fried Chicken Night with Gabriele Corcos and Debi Mazar

For Debi Mazar and Gabriele Corcos, stars of Extra Virgin and authors of the cookbook Super Tuscan, Hanukkah is a time to teach their daughters about their Italian-Jewish heritage in the most delicious way.

To keep the tradition alive at home
in Brooklyn, he heats up some oil and cooks for his
wife, the actress Debi Mazar, and their daughters,
Evelina, 15, and Giulia, 11. (Giulia likes being her dad’s
sous chef.) Gabriele uses his grandmother’s recipe,
which he and his father perfected by marinating the
meat in a Tuscan blend of rosemary, thyme, lemon,
and garlic. “My dad didn’t cook much,” says Gabriele.
“But he loved to fry stuff.”

Debi didn’t grow up
celebrating Hanukkah, but she can get behind this
tradition. “For me, there’s nothing more wonderful
than sharing a meal together as a family,” she says.
“And everybody loves fried chicken!”